On This Day

[TV-Expert]

Today marks 25 years since Prime axed its 30-minute local news bulletins in Canberra, Newcastle & Wollongong.

Here is the Newcastle Herald’s coverage of the axing of the Newcastle bulletin:

Random TV History

This one was very sad for me.. as I saw the last few minutes of the very last Prime Local News bulletin on Thursday 7 June 2001. Brett Lavaring mistakenly saying “This has been a KOFM News update” amongst his last few words on Newcastle TV. No one here saw this coming even though ratings had struggled for years Coverage from the ‘Newcastle Herald’ Sat 9 June. [image] [image] An editorial piece [image] This ratings report from 1995 showed how Prime and NRTV/Ten struggled to get any real …